While the media fixate on partisan blame, Russ Vought and a hard-right GOP faction are quietly using the shutdown to sidestep Congress and reshape government.
I am not saying it is technically impossible, I am just saying it would be weird for such a fundamental fact as over 50% of ICE agents’ income coming from personal payouts for bounties to just not be reported on anywhere. And of course “it has been mentioned in various spots on Blue Sky” is more or less the same as “my cousin told me.”
(Actually, it is worse, because you know your cousin is a real person whereas on Bluesky there is no such guarantee. But, regardless, it basically means nothing at all in terms of whether or not that assertion is true. “Weird” is an understatement for how improbable this is to actually be true.)
lemmy.world comments section in action, I guess. Literally every time someone comes at me with some kind of bonkers take, I look up, and I see that I am in a lemmy.world community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot
I am not saying it is technically impossible, I am just saying it would be weird for such a fundamental fact as over 50% of ICE agents’ income coming from personal payouts for bounties to just not be reported on anywhere. And of course “it has been mentioned in various spots on Blue Sky” is more or less the same as “my cousin told me.”
(Actually, it is worse, because you know your cousin is a real person whereas on Bluesky there is no such guarantee. But, regardless, it basically means nothing at all in terms of whether or not that assertion is true. “Weird” is an understatement for how improbable this is to actually be true.)
lemmy.world comments section in action, I guess. Literally every time someone comes at me with some kind of bonkers take, I look up, and I see that I am in a lemmy.world community.